Black and white television?
 

J G Miller wrote:
On Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at 23:21:47 +0000, Paul Heslop opined:

nothing is black and white.

Not even monochrome television?

Monochrome TVs show colour if this wheel is spun in front of the camera...
http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Benhams_disk.gif

Black and white television?
 

In article , J G Miller says...

Not even monochrome television?

Shades of grey.

Not even a zebra?

See above.





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Black and white television?
 

Conor wrote:

In article , J G Miller says...

Not even monochrome television?

Shades of grey.

Not even a zebra?

See above.

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heh, thats' what I said :O)
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Mr. Ed
 

Froot Bat wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:25:45 GMT, Paul Heslop
wrote:

Froot Bat wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:02:36 GMT, Paul Heslop
wrote:
Froot Bat wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:41:32 GMT, Paul Heslop
wrote:
Froot Bat wrote:
I'm all for 'accessibility' for people with disabilities, but I don't
see why just because someone has a disability they should get a free
pass from criticism when they post badly.

and neither should someone who is against such a practice given the
excuse to abuse someone who does it.

The post was rude and provocative but he did not "abuse" anyone.

OTOH your fellow utd-tver Terry Casey not only posted a foul-mouthed
rant across four newsgroups, he deliberately left out utd-tv so you,
Brian and anyone else who knows him wouldn't see the offensive and out
of control way he conducts himself towards other people.

Have anything to say about that?

Yeah, I didn't see it :O)

I did see one or two angry and abusive responses though

Then you did see it, quoted in the responses.

and of course that can be as bad as having a go in the first place.

For someone who claims to be so upset at B Hughes's post, you're
making a pretty huge effort to excuse or ignore Terry Casey's abusive
and totally uncalled for crosspost.

I'm not ignoring it, I'm not even looking at it.

are we going to go round i n circles like this all day?

Nah, just until you explain why you were so offended by the "abuse" in
B Hughes's post, that contained no personal attacks or angry swearing,
while Terry Casey's expletive laden insults don't bother you in the
slighest.

because I knew that his post was aimed at a blind person. I had the
'benefit' of knowledge. If you girls want to go round swearing at each
other feel free, it's your lives :O) but remember, although I said I
noticed Terry's post I didn't say I read it.

BTW, I am not sure I have ever pulled anyone for swearing, except in
our local groups which have a rule set by the ISP against personal
abuse of other users etc. even then i only give a warning that they
might get in trouble for it, rather than reporting them or anything.
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Mr. Ed
 

Paul Heslop wrote:

I just tried finding the post with the swearing in it but I can't see
it except Bill's short one.

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Mr. Ed
 

Paul Heslop wrote:

Paul Heslop wrote:

I just tried finding the post with the swearing in it but I can't see
it except Bill's short one.

ah, I have it now, I am a member of more than one group which this is
xposted to, so although I saw the post in another group I didn't
reply to it or anything, I think all of my replies have been mde in
the group which doesn't have it in the thread, so I assumed it had
been removed or something. Yeah, I don't actually like the C word at
all. very strong near the end, too much, and it didn't need the
swearing at all.

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Mr. Ed
 

"Graham." wrote in message
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Anyone remember Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton?

C. 1966?

A riches-to-rags story (the opposite of "The Beverly Hillbillies").

Not very engaging, not least (as so often twith USA sitcoms) because it
was laden with America-specific cultural references which meant nothing
here.

Interesting point.
In the intervening 40 years we have become more leftpondian in outlook
due to the barrage of American sit-coms and the "celebraty culture"
I don't think the opposite is true.

Hah, this from a country that made tabloid harassment what it is today. Did
"Jordan", Jade Goody or the Victoria Beckham come from the US? Nope.
Britain has become the source on planet Earth for do-nothing "celebrities"
that do not much more than wear sunglasses for a living. It's a
more-than-cottage industry here in the UK, so don't go on blaming the US for
your own country's twisted versions of I Wish I Was A Royal (aka "Fifteen
Minutes Innit Enuf").

Mr. Ed
 

"Woody" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:04:53 +0100, "Graham." wrote:



"Woody" wrote in message
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Four Feather Falls was Gerry (Thunderbirds) Anderson.
Anyone remember Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton?

C. 1966?



I rather think Four Feather Falls was somewhat earlier than
that - possibly 1963-ish?

Having typed that I remembered that Google is your friend.....

1958!!!!!!! (well in the States anyway.) 1960 over here.

Geez, I feel old.

I remember FFF quite well. You no doubt will
have discovered Anderson had an earlier production
called The Adventures of Twizzle which I have no memory of.

After FFF he did Torchy the Battery Boy thereby setting
the space-travel trend.

Anyone remember Space Patrol? not an Anderson series
but produced by Roberta Leigh who wrote the scripts for twizzle
and Torchy.


I remember Twizzle. Used to streach the legs and arms to the
accompning ratcheting sound. The legs looked like the the twisted
metal skewers.

She also wrote Hoppity. I remeber the theme tune and the character
her swinging on a gate!

Episodes of Space Patrol I believe were posted on one of the SCFI news
groups last year. I can't remember if I downloaded them. I used to
like that series.

never liked Torchy though. Really started for me with Supercar and
Fireball XL5 though!

Steve



Ah, now you're talking.
Fireball XL5
Supercar
Stingray
?
Thunderbirds - the best of the lot
Joe 90

My kids bought me an album of TV themes a Christmas or two ago and
Fireball XL5 was on it. Sadly I could remember the words and I'm only 58!!

Hah, my parents have still got the Fireball XL5 ship in their attic, with
the detachable front module and two removable characters on their
motorcycle-like-hover-things. And I grew up in the US! We had Fireball
XL5, Supercar, Stingray, Thunderbirds and (very briefly) Joe 90, and the ITV
theme-fanfare was embedded in my brain early on. I'm only 52. :)

Mr. Ed
 

"JNugent" wrote in message
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petetop wrote:

"Tim C" wrote:

Who here remembers this?

[ ... ]

Oh, a horse is a horse
Of course, of course
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse
You never heard of a talking horse?

Well, listen to this:
". . . I am Mister Ed

Yeah I remember the series, and My mother the talking car, and a real
old one Four Feather Falls, anyone remeber that one?

Both of them.

"My Mother The Car" was fairly obscure, though. I'd never heard of "Miss
Ann Sothern" (the voice of the mother/car) before seeing it.

Ann Southern had her own show in the late 50s-early 60s, "The Ann Southern
Show" (duh!), probably to compete with "The Gail Storm Show", as both of
them were cast as social directors of cruise ships. Gail Storm died just a
few months ago, God bless her, a real cutie, who was also the star of "My
Little Margie" before any of that came along.

Jerry Van Dyke was the "star", wasn't he?

Uh, yeah, as such... Jerry was always a bit of a hanger-on who seemed to be
the one they cast when they couldn't get his far-more-successful (though God
knows why) brother Dick.

I only watched the "Dick Van Dyke Show" to watch Mary Tyler Moore in those
capri pants, anyhow.

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Mr. Ed
 

"JNugent" wrote in message
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Bill Wright wrote:
"Tim C" wrote in message
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Who here remembers this?


A horse is a horse
Of course of course
And no one can talk to a horse,
Of course
That is, of course
Unless the horse
Is the famous Mister Ed!

I remember it so well! And from the same era, Denis the Menace, staring
Jay North. And I Love Lucy!

The Dennis programme is often referred to as "Dennis The Menace", but
there seems to be little connection between them. The TV series was
marketed here in the UK as "Just Dennis".

I vaguely suspect that the USA strip cartoon may be called "Dennis The
Menace", but that the rights to that title here being held by the
publishers of The Beano meant that the TV programme had to be given
UK-specific credits and a new title.

"Dennis the Menace", the US comic strip, had its first print run 12 March
1951.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace_(U.S.)

"Dennis the Menace" aka "Dennis the Menace and Gnasher" outside the UK had
its debut in print on 15 March 1951.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace_(UK)

As an American cartoonist living in the UK I can easily say that the British
"Dennis the Menace" is a bit more of a malicious trickster than the American
one. "Dennis", as known in the UK, is more of a regular boy shown more
often in the aftermath of relative mischief (sitting in his chair in the
corner, usually) than 'during', as with the British "Dennis the Menace".

You Brits might think the US version to be an adaptation of the UK one, but
in actuality the release within three days of each other is considered one
of the weirder coincidences of the cartoon universe.
http://www.toonopedia.com/dennis.htm


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